Small Study Shows Improvement in Asthma Among Smokers Who Switch to E-Cigarettes
The results of a small study conducted by a team of Italian scientists led by Dr. Ricardo Polosa and published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, show asthma-suffering smokers who switch to electronic cigarettes experience improvements of their symptoms and general lung functions, even if they remain dual users (both smoke and use e-cigarettes). The one-year-long study followed 18 smokers suffering from asthma who switched...
Read More...New Survey Shows Number of E-Cigarette Users in Britain Has Tripled Since 2012
According to a new UK survey commissioned by ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), over 2 million people in Britain are using electronic cigarettes. Of these, a third are ex-smokers, two thirds are still smokers, and only a negligible 0.1% of them are people who have never smoked. That electronic cigarettes have been growing in popularity over the past...
Read More...English Study Associates E-Cigarettes with Growing Smoking Cessation Rate
While anti-smoking advocates and e-cigarette opponents are going out of their way to convince the general public that electronic cigarettes are a gateway to smoking and do more harm than good, scientist at University College London have just released the results of a survey that proves electronic cigarettes do actually accelerate smoking cessation. According to the recently published Smoking Toolkit Study (STS) the rising e-cigarette use in England has been accompanied by...
Read More...Shady Study Claims Electronic Cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Quit
According to a research letter published by researchers from the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) electronic cigarettes are ineffective as smoking cessation aids. After analyzing the habits of 88 smokers who also used e-cigarettes, scientists found they were no more likely to quit cigarettes after a year, compared to smokers who didn't use them. Sad news, isn't it? Relax, though, this scientific work can only...
Read More...Bogus Study Would Have You Believe E-Cigarettes Encourage Smoking in Youth
A new study co-authored by Lauren Dutra and Stanton Glantz (yes, THAT Stanton Glantz) and titled "Electronic Cigarettes and Conventional Cigarette Use Among US Adolescents", suggests e-cigarettes does not discourage, and may encourage, tobacco cigarettes smoking among US teenagers. Actually, the study itself does not imply that at all, but that didn't stop its authors from drawing a preposterous conclusion. Electronic cigarettes "aggravate the tobacco epidemic among...
Read More...French National Survey Results Suggest E-Cigarettes Are Affecting Tobacco Cigarette Consumption
The findings of a recent national survey conducted by France's Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) show between 7.7 million and 9.2 million French have tried electronic cigarettes, and 1 to 2 million are using them on a daily basis. Corroborated with the fact that tobacco cigarette sales have dropped by 7.6% in 2013 - an unprecedented decline since the sharp price increases of 2003 and 2004 - the data has led experts to believe e-cigarettes have reduced...
Read More...New Studies Suggest E-Cigarette Vapor Is Considerably Safer than Tobacco Smoke
The results of two medical studies meant to shed some light on the chemical composition of vaporized e-liquid and the risks associated with second hand exposure, suggest electronic cigarette vapor is much less hazardous than cigarette smoke. Co-authored by Maciej Goniewicz, a cancer researcher in the Department of Health Behavior at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, the two studies analyzed secondhand exposure to e-cigarette vapors in a laboratory....
Read More...New Survey Suggests E-Cigarettes May Help Smokers Quit
A recent online survey conducted at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and let by renowned professor Jean Francois Etter suggests electronic cigarettes can help smokers quit or at least cut back on tobacco cigarettes. In the past, other small scientific studies have shown that electronic cigarettes seemed to help smokers kick their filthy habit or lower the number of cigarettes smoked daily, but there has been no...
Read More...New Study Finds Electronic Cigarettes Do NOT Lead to Smoking
In the world's first ever study to examine the much-contested theory that electronic cigarettes are a dangerous gateway to smoking, Dr. Theodore Wagener, from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, found only one young person who began nicotine use with e-cigarettes and later moved on to tobacco cigarettes, out of a sample of 1,30o college students. Last month, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that electronic cigarette use was...
Read More...E-Cigarettes At Least as Effective as Nicotine Patches Pioneering Clinical Trial Shows
The highly anticipated results of a large scale study into the effectiveness of electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation tools have just been published. Although much less impressive than we hoped, this new research shows e-cigarettes are at least as effective as nicotine patches in helping smokers quit. Entitled "Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Control Trial", the clinical trial conducted by a team at the University of Auckland, in New...
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